Review Quiz: Chapters 4-8
A fill-in review of imagery, figurative language, and allusion.
ENGLISH 12AP : Literature and Composition
Quiz - Imagery
Name
Date Per.
Mr. Reed
1.What poetic term is defined as “the representation through language of sense experience”?
2.What type of imagery appeals to the mind’s “ear”?
3.What type of imagery appeals to the mind’s “nose”?
4.What type of imagery appeals to the mind’s “tongue”?
5.What type of imagery appeals to the mind’s sense of touch?
6.What type of imagery appeals to internal sensations?
7.What type of imagery appeals to the sense of movement or tension?
8.Name the figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike
9.Name the figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike
10.Name the figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept
11.Name the figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply
12.Name the figure of speech in which something closely related to a thing is used for the thing actually meant.
13.What literary device may be defined as “something that means more than what it is,” that is it represents itself and something else at the same time?
14.What literary device may be defined as “a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface”?
15.What type of figurative language is defined as “an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true”?
16.What type of figurative language is defined as “exaggeration in the service of truth”?
17.What type of figurative language is defined as “saying less than one means”?
18.What genre is defined as “ridicule (either bitter or gentle) of human folly or vice, with the purpose of bringing about reform or at least of keeping other people from falling into similar folly or vice”?
19.What type of figurative language is defined as “a discrepancy between the actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or between what one anticipates and what actually comes to pass”?
20.What literary device calls upon the reader to recognize references to literature, history, and the like in order to fully understand the poem?
BONUS:
A.Which type of words do poets tend to prefer : abstract or concrete?
B.Name the figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.
C.What is the appropriate term for metonymies that have become cliches?